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Rural School Leaflet 



Now you arc in school again, and this is the first leaflet for the year. 

 I hoi)e you will enjoy it. Read " Christmas on the Farm " on i)age 1026. 

 Last }ear you rcnieml)er we wrote to y(ni about Thanksgiving Day. We 

 have also outlined in this leaflet a number of things for you to do in studying 

 horses, birds, plants, and trees for this year. Your teacher will help you 

 with this work. 



You will be interested to read over the article about Com Day on page 

 1005, and to see the list of all the schools that sent ears of com for the 

 Fanners' Week exhibit last year. What a lot of them there were! This 

 year I expect there will be twice as many schools sending com, for it 



Some of the members of a school visited in October, 1 913. 



chestnut trees were found 



On the field trip several 



has been a good crop year and I am sure you will be able to select plenty 

 of fine ears. Ask your teacher to read from her September leaflet what 

 we say about Com Day ; you will find there also a list of the schools win- 

 ning prizes for the best ears from each county, and for the State. Two 

 years ago the state prizes went to schools in Cayuga and Washington 

 Counties. Last year they went to schools in Monroe and Niagara Counties. 

 Where will they go this year? Have a good Com Day on December 4, 

 and send us the best ears of com according to the directions given in the 

 article on page 1005. 



I want especially to ask you to read the note on page 1003 about the col- 

 lection and identification of weed seeds. You can find many weed seeds 

 now, and I hope you will leam a lot of them this fall. In the next leaflet 



